Thanks Dave... worked great... My next problem is to search the amount field for dollar amounts.... I need to be able to search for dollar amounts in ranges... ie ($1,000 or less) ($1,000 - $1,500) etc, etc.. here's my code for the dollar amount to search and it doesn't seem to work right.. 
<select name="searchprice" size="1" value="price">
    <option value="\$" selected>Any Price
    <option value="<1000">Under \$1,000
    <option value="1000-1500">\$1,000 - \$1,500
    <option value="1501-2500">\$1,500 - \$2,500
    <option value="2501-5000">\$2,500 - \$5,000
    <option value="5001-10000">\$5,000 - \$10,000
    <option value="10001-15000">\$10,000 - \$15,000
    <option value="15001-999999">\$15,000 - UP
    </select></font></td></tr>

if ($desc =~ /$form{'searchprice'}/)  
  {print "$desc\n";}

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My data looks like this:

bla bla bla bla $1,000
bla bla $12,500. bla bla
bla $5000 bla bla bla

sometimes it has a comma sometimes it doesn't...
sometimes it has a period directly after it and so on...

____SysAdm

In reply to Re: Re: Search question by SysAdm
in thread Search question by SysAdm

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